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The California consumer group that pioneered the nation’s toughest property casualty insurance regulation called on President Obama today to use his federal regulatory authority and state ballot measure processes to stop health insurers from arbitrarily raising rates on Americans.

China and America decline to acknowledge what everyone else knows: China suppresses the value of its currency to gain a trade advantage over America. This is costing America untold numbers of manufacturers and millions of jobs. The U.S. Treasury Department, which is required by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to name foreign currency manipulators in bi-annual reports, must label China in its April 15 account, then sanction China if it doesn’t begin balancing its currency.

By Alison Hamm, Media Consortium blogger

Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) met with industry groups Wednesday evening to discuss their much anticipated tripartisan climate legislation. Based on leaks from the meeting, it sounds like the climate bill will be incredibly industry friendly, which may mean that the bill does little to help the environment.

part of my new series of videos addressing defenses of the current health-care bill; this one talks about the idea that this bill is a start for real reform

When U.S. companies or unions win trade cases, they anticipate those events being described as instances in which they’ve successfully proved to the U.S. International Trade Commission that China violated international trade rules. Instead, the media have repeatedly characterized the imposition of tariffs as Americans unnecessarily picking fights with the Chinese.

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